Hi Linda, I think I will try and take that advice. I like it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Thank you! So much of this is mind over matter, that seriously I have GOT to get a plan because the yeast already has one ---> "feed me".

I have to remind myself that the very short term pleasure that I derive from these goodies only last while I'm eating and then what? They are gone, but the effects are lasting and a hinderance to improvements. Not worth it at all.

Better to eat plain and put up with on and off cravings, than give in and remain an invalid. I believe you are correct, something is OFF in our bodies to the extent that there are these kinds of insane cravings and I do not believe they are normal, not when you consider the stuff I can eat that I cannot switch off from until I get severe nausea (or worse). That is not normal and something that has gotten worse the sicker I am. I used to be a little stronger and I had more will power also. Got cravings, but not to this extent. Sadly the sicker someone is, the more essential it is to eat healthy yet often the worse their cravings will be and the weaker their will power....vicious cycle.

Also I was brought up on a LOT of junkfood, as well as good. I drank coke like it was water, ate sugar straight from the bowl as a kid (nobody knew this), ate icing sugar straight, and basically ate cookies all day, cakes, ice cream, milk shakes with plenty of syrup/sugar, and by age 11 was on my way to getting pyrohhea? (can't spell this). Some name for a gum disease...

I also have imbalance of hormones to a degree. Obviously not enough to warrant medication but enough to where the endocrinologist noted it down. I am producing too much steroid hormone (DHEA), and have a very low estrogen level. Have a problem with excess body hair and other symptoms that I've struggled with most of my life. So who knows what causes these things and whether it can be toxicity even in the womb from the Mother....

But anyway, I am on the diet and so far hanging in there and hope to continue on as I started. I think that one has to be ultra strict because it seems even a loosening up can tip one into a complete landslide (at least it does with me). i have to keep a tight rein on myself at all times.